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  • Eric 4:20 pm on June 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Dev Chat summary for June 12, 2013 

    Chat log

    Agenda

    • WPAndroid 2.4 Notifications
    • Windows phone app update
    • BlackBerry “legacy” app
    • New contributor projects/tickets
    • iOS 3.6.1
    • iOS Native Reader

    WPAndroid 2.4 Notifications

    The notifications update as released Tuesday and its been well received.  We’ve noticed a few corner cases bugs have popped up.  They are being actively squashed and a new update will be released as soon as the last one is confirmed DOA.

    For the next planned release we’re working on two separate tracks: an update to NUX following along the lines of the iOS update, and a native reader.

    Windows Phone App Update

    An update to the WordPress for Windows Phone has been submitted and we’re awaiting its review. This update adds gallery support for self-hosted blogs running WordPress 3.5 or higher, and fixes the top five bugs reported.  We expect Microsoft to approve the app by Friday. Yay!

    @daniloercoli noted that we’re seeing an issue with header of the xml files we get from Glotpress for use in localizing the app.  Visual Studio treats the files as they are incorrectly formatted, even though the header visually appears okay. Not quite sure what the issue is but we pinged @markoheijnen about it for further investigation.

    BlackBerry “legacy” app

    We’ll be working on an update to the “legacy” BlackBerry app.  The goal of this update is to address some connection issues that folks have been experiencing and to reintroduce the “Need Help” dialog and a direct link to contact support.  We’ll also fix an issue we’ve found with the stats feature and jetpack blogs.

    New contributor projects/tickets

    @mrroundhill suggested we might identify tickets/features that would be good for a new contributor to pick up.  This could be something as simple as tagging tickets in track.  We thought this was a great idea and mrroundhill will be posting a follow up about it on the make blog.

    WPiOS 3.6.1

    A bug fix release is being prepped to submit to Apple.  A lot of issues have already been addressed (https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/compare/master…release;3.6.1) and we’re just trying to get one or two more into this release.  We’ll most likely submit today or tomorrow.

    WPiOS Native Reader

    After some delays to get the last couple of features just right the required API changes are now being reviewed. We still have a few things left on our checklist. The next few days will be about getting the final graphics, implementing infinite scroll, and making sure everything works correctly on the iPad.  We’re looking at finally having a beta of the native reader ready by Monday June 17th.

    Next Week

    The next dev chat will be on June 19, 2013 at 15:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

    • heredia21 6:54 am on June 14, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Any updates on the native app for BlackBerry 10?

    • Eric 1:21 pm on June 14, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      There is a native app for BlackBerry 10 being worked on as one of the Google Summer of Code projects.

  • Eric 3:49 pm on June 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Dev Chat summary for June 5, 2013 

    Chat log

    Agenda

    • WPiOS 3.6
    • WPiOS Reader status
    • WPAndroid beta
    • Windows Phone Upgrade

    WPiOS 3.6

    The latest release is going smoothly, and there have been no major issues thus far. Congrats to everyone who worked on the release and especially sendhil for all his effort coding up the NUX!

    We’ll plan on a 3.6.1 bug fix release to address some minor issues and other things unrelated to 3.6 specifically.

    WPiOS Reader status

    aerych and irbrad continue to make progress on the native reader – currently focused on reblogging and iPad improvements.  A beta this week was the goal but there is still a lot remaining and its looking like next week is more realistic.

    WPAndroid beta

    Welcome back mrroundhill :)
    A few bugs have been revealed during the beta period.   A release was planned for today but we’ll delay until Monday and squash the bugs instead.

    Windows Phone Upgrade

    Its time for a new iteration on the Windows Phone app. daniloercoli will be working on a small bug fix release addressing the top five bugs and also bring gallery support to self-hosted blogs.

    Next Week

    The next dev chat will be on June 12, 2013 at 15:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Eric 3:58 pm on May 15, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Dev Chat Summary for May 15, 2013 

    Several of the team were out at Google IO this week so we filled in the gaps as we were able. Chat log.

    Agenda

    • iOS
    • Android
    • WInPhone and BlackBerry
    • Git

    iOS

    • Accounts is nearly complete. Needs more testing but we’ll hold off until NUX is ready.
    • NUX is currently being tested and awaiting updated translations.
    • Progress continues on the native reader. Support for adding/replying to comments is underway and irbrad is joining the effort.

    Android

    The notifications release is currently in beta and very close to releasing. We haven’t decided what’s next but NUX is high on the list.

    WinP and BlackBerry

    BlackBerry is currently reviewing an update sent Monday, May 13th, and we expect it to be live in the store this week. This is basically version 2.3.3 of the Android app with some minor changes. The code is in the BlackBerry branch of the Android repository.

    A Windows Phone update was submitted Tuesday. This update addresses an issue with the sharing feature. We expect it to be live later today or tomorrow.

    Git

    We’ve been having some trouble with the git repository at ios.git.wordpress.org getting out of sync with our git checkouts and the mirror on github.com. The repositories have had trouble staying in sync and most recently the commit authors have been reset and no longer match. We suspect the culprit is the subgit software that manages syncing between the svn and git repositories hosted on wordpress.org.

    We discussed possible options:
    A) Give subgit one last try.
    B) Drop svn and make ios.git.wordpress.org the official repository, mirrored to github.
    C) Make the repository on github the official repo.

    We talked it over and decided the best course of action is to sunset the svn repo in favor of git. We will correct the repository at ios.git.wordpress.org and it will become the official repo for WPiOS with a two way mirror to github.

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on May 22, 2013 at 1500 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Isaac Keyet 3:38 pm on April 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Dev chat summary for April 24, 2013

    Chat log.

    Agenda

    • iOS : version 3.5.3 released
    • iOS : status
    • Android : version 2.3.1 released
    • Android : status
    • Windows Phone : status
    • Mobile Handbook Reminder

    iOS : version 3.5.3 released

    The latest version of the app was released on Monday April 23, and has fixed even more crashes and bugs. Unfortunately there’s still a crash occurring with featured images.

    iOS : status

    Now working on some improvements to the WPcom Notifications screen and looking into ways the app can better handle accounts (from both WPcom and multisite installs).

    NUX project: wrapped up (*crosses fingers*) some of the stuff that will improve the signup flow and have shifted toward the wizard walkthrough features.

    Native WPcom reader project: implementation is progressing. Basic views are implemented and being iterated on. Currently working on the best way to handle video in posts.

    Android : version 2.3.1 released

    A bug fix update for version 2.3 (Holo update) of the Android app was released. This took care of a handful of crashes and a multitasking issue.

    Android : status

    Another bug fix release with some fixes to the ActionBarSherlock library and James Hu’s comment editing patch.

    The next major version is 2.4 (WPcom Notifications). This release is progressing, push notifications are working and the UI is being wired up.

    Windows Phone : status

    Nothing big in the pipeline, although there’s now a milestone with tickets for the next update.

    Mobile Handbook Reminder

    There are quite a few items left to do, both assigned and open — you know who you are! Let’s wrap this up. Eric said he’s started to look into the remaining items for Windows Phone.

    Rachel got in touch (yay!) so we’ll bring her up to speed on the status of the handbook as well.

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on July 1, 2013 at 1500 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Eric 6:44 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    For the GSOC I think it would be nice to have at least one project for WPiOS, WPAnroid and WPWinPhone. Maybe even encouraging something new like a Phone Gap effort, native BlackBerry, Tizen or Firefox OS apps. We should suggest some ideas.
    Adding image filters to iOS quick photo might be a good project. Anyone have others?

     

    • Jen Mylo 6:54 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Propose as many as possible, for the best chance to entice a good set of applicants. You’re not committed to anything until we actually choose students.

      • Eric 7:44 pm on March 29, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Hey @jane, We’ve settled on a list of projects we think sound interesting and @daniloercoli, @sendhil, and myself are game to mentor. I went ahead and updated the project page (hope that was okay) but let me know if it would be better to send the list a different way.

    • Will Norris 8:52 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Some random things on my wishlist for the Android app. I think some of these are already being worked on, or may get started between now and June, but I’ll list them anyway. If we think any of these are worth pursuing, we can write more in depth proposals.

      • add Notification support (pretty sure this is already being worked on)
      • refactor all network code out of Activity classes and move to background service (related: #363). this is actually a fair amount of work.
      • add tests (unit tests, UI tests, etc). Adding a lot of the unit tests will be dependent on the network code refactor above and similar refactoring projects so that the code is broken up into more logical chunks that can be individually tested. This also isn’t a very sexy task, but is really important, long term.
      • photo instant upload, a la Google+ / FaceBook / Dropbox. We’d need to discuss a little more about whether this should go into the app before we have a student spend time coding it up. I have mixed feelings.
      • explore options for allowing plugins to extend the mobile UI. I’ve had a number of different thoughts about how this could be done. I’m not sure that this would get to a shippable state in the time allotted for SoC (again, I think it deserves a bit of discussion on whether it should be done), but a proof of concept would be really cool.

      • Eric 2:41 pm on March 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        explore options for allowing plugins to extend the mobile UI

        That would be rad!

    • Eric 2:41 pm on March 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      A few more ideas:

      • Port WordPress for webOS to Firefox OS, Tizen, and/or Ubuntu Mobile.
      • A native WordPress app for BlackBerry 10.
      • Make WordPress for iOS a share target for other mobile apps.
      • Build a rich text editor for WordPress for iOS.

  • daniloercoli 4:57 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Version 1.9 of WordPress for Windows Phone was submitted for review today!
    It should be live in a week from now.
    A draft of the announcement post is available on the site here: http://windowsphone.wordpress.org/

     

  • Dan 9:04 pm on September 26, 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Mobile Dev Chat Summary for Sep 26, 2012

    We had a shorter meeting this week but still had some good discussion (chat log):

    Agenda:

    • WPAndroid 2.2. Launch Update
    • 3.5 XML-RPC Improvements
    • WPWindowsPhone 1.7 Discussion

    WPAndroid 2.2. Launch Update

    3.5 XML-RPC Improvements

    • Patch for #21397 was reviewed with some feedback, and @markoheijnen updated it and added a new patch. Team is doing their best to get this in 3.5 still.

    WPWindowsPhone 1.7 Discussion

    • A bit of trac cleanup for 1.7 has been done, but more needed. @irbrad will review the milestone.
    • @daniloercoli has picked up a few tickets and will likely start dev next week.
    • We discussed how to get up and running with the Windows Phone 8 SDK.
     

    • Marko Heijnen 10:03 pm on September 27, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Revisions has been added to core now. I still want to double check it. I also did a check on the new user methods (#18428) and found a bug that wp.getUsers can’t return everything.

      Now looking into the rest of the tickets for 3.5 and hoping to get some improvements on media #21085 but that is going to be tricky since we passed the hard freeze date

  • Isaac Keyet 8:29 pm on September 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Mobile Dev Chat Sep 5, 2012 

    Summary of this week’s dev chat. IRC log.

    Agenda:

    • WPAndroid 2.2 and fixes
    • Help needed for WPiOS 3.2
    • WPWindowsPhone 1.7 road map and planning
    • Core XML-RPC tickets status

    WPAndroid 2.2 and fixes

    Things are going well with version 2.2 so far but a few bugs surfaced. A bug fix update was issued (v. 2.2.1) and submitted earlier today. There’s been some reports about Stats not working correctly, we’ve been working with people in the WordPress for Android forums to try and resolve these and figure out where Stats fails. A big thing seems to be that the Stats page is simply a really big page load.

    A huge win with version 2.2 is that almost all crashes seems to be gone – the app is becoming very stable.

    We discussed the need to have fields for Jetpack credentials in the Blog Settings area within the app (like we do for WPiOS since WPiOS 3.1.3). We decided it would be nice to have but are holding off for now.

    Game plan for the next week.

    Help needed for WPiOS 3.2

    We’re half way there for Featured Image support, should be in before the end of the week. WordPress.com Notifications needs tweaks to load faster and work better (Automattic will work on this).

    The visual editor is in and there’s now a toggle to switch between the visual editor and the HTML mode. Working on disabling the visual editor for non iOS5+ devices, then we can start testing for real. Should be ready for testing towards the end of the week. We discussed problems with unrecognized tags and how we should deal with it – we need to flesh this out more.

    We need help closing tickets as Trac is still looking pretty grim. We’ll look over the current batch of tickets to figure out what’s still feasible to do in 3.2 and move the rest to Future Release. We’ll also try to work on specific areas within the app to remain focused.

    Game plan for the next week.

    WPWindowsPhone 1.7 road map and planning

    We discussed the 1.7 milestone and what our priorities should be as well as what we may have missed. It’s clear that Local Drafts is the most important enhancement listed, followed by combining the Comments screens (regular comments list and bulk moderation) to one list and low hanging fruit (Media positioning, maybe a better formatting toolbar – we’ll discuss this on the dev blog) in the Post Editor.

    To make sure the app doesn’t fall behind further we should also add Featured Image support in the app.

    Edit Comment was not discussed, but being an enhancement likely to be dropped (moved to Future Release for now).

    The rest of the 1.7 milestone is a go, but we need clarification on some tickets.

    Urgent todos posted on the dev blog.

    Core XML-RPC tickets status

    After the bug scrub we’ve updated the patches. We’re now waiting to get them reviewed again – but it looks like the Revisions/Previews enhancements are a go for version 3.5. The revisions should also make implementing Gallery support in the apps easier. Soft freeze today!

    Epilogue

    Please join us next week for the mobile dev chat, 15:00 UTC Wednesday.

     

  • Isaac Keyet 11:10 pm on August 29, 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Mobile Dev Chat Aug 29, 2012 

    Summary of the dev chat held in IRC on Aug 29, 2012. Chat log.

    Agenda:

    • WPiOS 3.2 cycle status update, todos
    • WPAndroid 2.2 status update (we’re in beta!)
    • WPWindowsPhone 1.7 planning and heads up
    • Core revisions and preview API in 3.5

    WPiOS 3.2 cycle status update, todos

    • We went over the current status of version 3.2 and noted progress on Featured Image support, visual editor for iPad iOS5+, and Notifications screen for WordPress.com + comment notifications. Visual editor and Notifications for WordPress.com are in trunk, however in a very rough state, but we’re moving along steadily. There are plenty of tickets open in Trac though and plenty for would-be contributors to look into!
    • We discussed the visual editor a bit, reiterating the need to have it not tamper with posts in an unexpected way. The toolbar will need to be changed a bit to accommodate the new editor (indicating “active” status). @irbrad is going to look into some of the top plugins that alter/hook into the editor and how we need to tackle those in the app. To test this properly we’ll need to compare existing (old) posts from a large number of different websites and make sure that the markup/content is not altered in a negative way by using the app. Special care needs to be taken to shortcodes and full embeds.

    WPAndroid 2.2 status update (we’re in beta!)

    • The app’s in beta, and it’s going well so far. Some issues/concerns have come up: Featured Image support is not checked remotely (we’ll work on this) and tapping images to open details in the post editor is cumbersome at times.

    WPWindowsPhone 1.7 planning and heads up

    • While there’s no ETA on when the dev cycle could start just yet, we foresee this cycle starting right around WPiOS 3.2 is out.
    • There’s a tentative road map in Trac already, to bring the app up to speed with the other apps, prepare it for Windows Phone 8, and resolve lingering UX issues.
    • @maxcutler highlighted that Windows Phone 7 apps will work on Windows Phone 8, and so our aim should be to improve the app and not exclude older devices – especially since these can’t upgrade .
    • Some concerns were raised about the WordPress.com app developed by Automattic for Windows 8, that it doesn’t fit so well into this new suite of OS’s and software that’s coming from Microsoft. We’ll need to think it through, but it may make sense to help turn this app into a full “regular” WordPress app with management capabilities and support for self-hosted blogs.

    Core revisions and preview API in 3.5

    • @mrroundhill brought up the need for an improved Gallery API, although it may be a tight fit to do in time for 3.5. We decided that it would be best to hold off on gallery support in the apps for now, until the API is improved. Post revisions should help with this.
    • The feature freeze is coming up and it’s time to complete the patches and send ‘em in, so it’s now the biggest priority to get the patches in that we need. @kokejb still has the lead here but should call in help accorndingly.
     

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